Julie grew up in Bretagne (Vannes, France), studying Aerospace Engineering in Toulouse (France) and Montréal (Canada), before moving to the Netherlands in 2006 to work at the European Space Agency in Noordwijk. Her passion for cinema and filmmaking pushed her to enroll on a Film Production course at the Film Academy of Amsterdam in 2010.
After having worked on various film productions in Amsterdam, including the transmedia project “Steekspel” directed by Paul Verhoeven, Julie felt it was time to take the plunge and produce her own film projects. Armed with a burgeoning international contacts list, a Palm beer in one hand and a list of ideas in the other, P’tites Madeleines Productions was born in 2013.
To date, Julie continues both passions: aerospace engineering and filmmaking.
She produced and directed her first project in 2013: a music video for the track "The Heat and the Cold War" for the Dutch Art Rock band Glossy Jesus, that won 2 awards (Best Screenplay + Best Editing) at the Women's Independant Film Festival (2014) and the DIAMOND AWARD at the International Independent Film Awards (2014).
She then produced a short French fiction film (19min) shot in Guadeloupe, "Terminus, Anse Dupuy".
In 2016, she produced a music video for the track "Tripper" from the Dutch DJ Geck-o and directed by Dutch director Wiebe van den Ende that was extremely well received by the critics for its storyline and acting.
Through her second production company, LA MADO FILMS, based in Paris, Julie has been developing for two years with the same Wiebe van den Ende the cinematic VR crime drama series, MY ONLY WAY OUT, that is the first VR projects that received a development grant from the European Commission. A few times selected as one of the top 4 best cinematic VR projects in development, Wiebe and Julie have been pitching MY ONLY WAY OUT at the famous Cross Video Days, International Film Festival Rotterdam, VR Days, or Sandbox Immersive Festival in Qingdao, China.
More recently, they have finished together in September 2018 their first VR production, INCITEMENT, a 10-min cinematic dark romantic VR comedy, made with the support of the Dutch Film Fonds.